"Another world is not only possible ... she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing" - Arundhati Roy
My girlfriend posted the above quote on my Facebook wall yesterday. It gives me hope in the midst of much confusion these days. I...
It's Responsible Consumption Month at The Interdependence Project, and as my personal commitment to lessen my environmental impact, I made a pledge to kick my "Chemical Dependency" by replacing the chemical-based products I love with more natural...
Today is the spring equinox. It is also a day-off from school (thanks to official remembrance of the birthday of Benito Juarez), and today is also the day I am starting a 28 day meditation challenge.
Before I begin, I am taking...
Its been 53 years since His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has been allowed to see his home. 53 years since Tibetans have been allowed to publicly express their love and devotion towards their spiritual teacher, within their own homeland.
53 years...
We all want companionship. Either we want it or we are fighting to keep it. So, whether you are accustomed (or unaccustomed) to being home alone or sitting on the couch curled up next to someone, we all fear the same thing; being...
Listen.
That drill outside the window,
They're fixing the street so it won't collapse under us.
On the subway, a baby howls.
Pull out your earbuds,
Breathe in her high-pitched wails.
The heart of the world is bleeding, and she can't shut the valves...
In Shambhalla, the Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chogyam Trungpa observes again and again that the softening of the heart leads the warrior into sadness.
Love Sonnet #17
Pablo Neruda
read by the Malis...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKjzEHqPHQs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKjzEHqPHQs
edit: adding the English text, a friend just sent to me...
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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose,...
As I experienced Ethan's transmission through the study-at-home recording of the Vajrayana practice of visualization, I found myself cataloging contexts in which I had encountered similar ideas. One was Miguel de Unamumo, Jesuit philosopher, who...
About an hour ago, a friend of mine asked me what my idea of God was. You know, for someone who has studied so much philosophy, spent so many hours on the cushion, and has basically built a life out of learning to ask questions, I really had a hard...
The Intro to Vajrayana class is really getting onto something big and deep. One of the reasons I come to Ethan's classes is because he says that Buddhism can grow and evolve in our times by borrowing from what has been learned in other disciplines.
"I am thinking this morning … of the little children who, in this system, are robbed of their childhood, and in their early, tender years, are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon, and forced into the industrial dungeons, there...
A new study by Yale researchers shows that experienced meditators may have less activity in parts of the brain associated with daydreaming and distraction while meditating and in their day-to-day lives.
The relation of science and dogmatic religion is one thing; they're incompatible. But the relation of science and spirituality is much more interesting.
The wilder the weather is, the more the ravens love it. They just let go into the wind and let it blow them away. They play on it, they float on it. It's a game. Once I saw them in an incredible hurricane-velocity wind, grabbing each other...
